Sunday Dare, the Special Adviser on Media and Public Communications to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained that the president is presently preoccupied with the task of positively impacting the lives of Nigerians and not fixated on the next general election.
Dare expressed this opinion in a post shared on X on Friday. He stated that the achievements of the president so far would be at the end of his tenure despite occasioning concrete development to the economy of the nation.
His statement is coming amid rising political tension and economic difficulty presently being experienced in the country.
Dare’s statement read, “President Tinubu is not worried about the next election. He’s worried about the shared prosperity that he can bring to Nigerians.
“He’s worried about how the reforms he has put in place will yield the necessary impact. He is concerned about what happens to the economy of this country eventually. That’s the focus. “We’ve seen our foreign reserves go up. We’ve seen inflation come down. We’ve seen our trade surplus go up.
“We’ve seen exports go up and imports drop. We’ve seen the investments that have been attracted -over 50 billion. We are seeing prices dropping.
“We have clear data and you have a President that is clearly in the driver’s seat, and he has stayed the course of the decisions he has taken. And I think that the next election is not really in his view right now.
“It’s how to make sure that at the end of his first term, he can sit back and say, look, “I have impacted the lives of Nigerians. I have turned this economy around.”